Date of Award
2007
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
McGuirk, Carol
Abstract
Late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century poets concentrated some of their creative energies into poetry in which animals are used to comment on human experience. Such poets as Anna Barbauld, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge employ images of animals for social and political commentary as well as individual and private psychological exploration. All four poets comment on why and how animals are significant in a human context, exploring the larger political and social concerns symbolized by animal misfortune, and simultaneously drawing (sometimes unintentionally) attention to animal welfare.
Extent
72 p.
Recommended Citation
Bauer, Valerie, "The Role of Animals in the Poetry of Anna Barbauld, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge" (2007). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 1376.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/1376
Identifier
FA00000893
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2007.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters